Beauty

We have a yarn about Ganni's eye-catching liner look in Paris

By Josefin Forsberg

Photo: Alex Dobe

It seems fabric fibres were the (red) thread for Ganni's glam team this season, with lead makeup artist Lynsey Alexander pulling on jacquard and tapestries to create the cord-clad eyeliner look

Taking place in the stately halls of Hôtel Pozzo di Borgo — home to the late Karl Lagerfeld for nearly three decades — Ganni's autumn/winter '25 collection appeared to muse on the idea of homeliness. "This collection is very much inspired by the feeling of home – what it means, how it moves with you, and how it shapes who you are,” creative director Ditte Reffstrup told Vogue Scandinavia. “I wanted to create a collection that reflects that – a wardrobe designed to feel like an embrace.”

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To achieve this, Reffstrup recontextualised traditional English furnishing fabrics, directly inspired by summers spent in England, into hand-crocheted jumpers (reminiscent of doilies) and rose-print jacquard skirts. And, it seems, the direction of the beauty look was cut from the same cloth.

Photo: Goldie Williams

Yes, there was the hair, shaped to create a “sense of a helmet,” according to Ganni's stylist Vanessa Reid, who adds that it was intended to provide “protection from the noise”, echoing Ditte’s inspiration for the collection. But the homely influence was most evident in the makeup. “For the makeup, we wanted to build on the story of craft, taking threads from the collection jacquards and tapestry and using them as an eye liner,” Reid shares.

The playful process took place under the watchful eye of lead makeup artist Lynsey Alexander, who quite literally pulled threads from the collection’s jacquards and tapestry and applied them in an intricate pattern to the models' eyes using eyelash glue. The bright orange, green, and light blue fibres were then paired with a dusting of blush (evocative of the ‘English Rose’ ideal), a smattering of freckles, and subtle mascara all framed by unruly brows – proving that, sometimes, a simple thread is all it takes to stitch the vision together.

Photo: Alex Dobe

Photo: Alex Dobe

Photo: Alex Dobe